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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 33 No. 11. 22 July 1970
Arts Festival 1970
Arts Festival 1970
Highlights of this year's Arts Festival—held at Victoria for the first time since 1965—will probably be provided in the drama section and in the first public performance of Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic work 'Hymnen'. The Festival will commence on Sunday, 16 August, and will end on Saturday, 22 August.
The Auckland University Drama Society is to present Bertolt Brecht's Edward II; Otago will present Edward Bond's Early Morning; Massey is to present John Spurling's Macrunes Guevara, and Victoria will present a series of one-act plays including Harold Pinter's The Basement and Samuel Beckett's Come and Go.
A public performance of Hymnen, a work of 122 minutes duration ("to be presented in total darkness and through 100 watt amplifiers) will highlight the concert music section of the Festival.
Other items in this section include lunch-hour concerts and three evening concerts. The Bach Choir, the University of Canterbury' Singers and the Victoria University Orchestra will perform at these concerts.
A new section this year will feature blues and/or rock bands from each university Wellington groups performing include Gutbucket, Capel Hopkins Blues Dredge and the ubiquitous Simon and the Mammals. Controller John Hannan promises "at least three concerts (including open air shows) and five workshop/lectures."
The film section of the festival will include the New Zealand premiere of Work is a Four-Letter Word, and such other commercial films as Marat/Sade, the original Frankenstein, How I Won the War, Little Shop of Horrors and Lord Lover Duck. Student films at the Festival include John Reid's First Revue Film 1970, Kevin Passmore's The Age of Block, and Graham Craig's Evensong. A film school on the theme 'Revolutions in Cinema' will also be held.
In the folk music section, performing artists include Tamburlaine, Godot, the Mad Dog Jug, Jook and Washboard Hand, Pitt Ramsey. Alister and Allison Hulett and Jae Rennaut. Performers from each of the main universities are expected.
Other sections at the Festival will include bridge; chess; dance theatre; debating (for the Joynt Scroll); fine arts (including "an outdoor 'paint-in' with artists each painting a section of a large canvas"); an international concert; jazz; a law moot; literary (including several poetry readings, films and lectures); modern language drama (including Ardele, by Jean Anouilh, Der Jasager and der Neinsager by Bertolt Brecht and The Anniversary by Anton Chekhov); photograph) (including an exhibition by Australian universities); pooh (wherein the philosophy of A.A. Milne is propounded, where 'Pooh' is read, hunny is eaten, a pooh-Sticks contest is held and the North Pole is sought); and philosophy.
Arts Festival Controller Graeme Nesbitt said that he had been delighted with the response to his appeal for billets for Students from oilier universities coming into Wellington for the festival. "However, we need several hundred more billets," he Said,
Mr Nesbitt said that a feature of the administration of this year's Festival was the institution of a flat fee of $4 for entry to all activities, excluding social events.